So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
![Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote - [Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/christ-is-the-mediator-not-only-between-god-and-ma-683x1024.jpg)
